Rococo Style Silver Sugar Bowl, Paris By Etienne Delanoy, 1750-1752

- Silver hammered, melted and chased
- By, master goldsmith Etienne Delanoy, from 17
- Paris, 1750-1752
- Diameter : 97 mm ; Length:  150 mm (handles) ; Height: 140 mm ; Weight: 532g
- Condition : Very good condition, beautiful chasing
- Provenance : Coll. Noël, private collection

- Round sugar pot with a swollen body in its upper part rests on scrolled feet with a double jagged shell. The body with ribs in doucine to the interior pinched edges in the plumb of the feet, movement extending to the lid and its molded edge on joining at its top in a fruit catch on a rockery of leaves vines. The melted side handles are elements of shells lined with moldings. The body engraved "CL".
 
- Parisian sugar pot of a late rococo style. We find the whole ornamental corpus of this style: swollen and serpentine lines accentuated by the naturalistic and asymmetrical rococo elements of the feet and handles made of jagged shells and moldings.
 
- Hallmarks: Charge: A crowned with palms and laurels, charge for large silver works, Paris, October 1, 1750 to October 1, 1756 [1, no. 410]; Warden's mark: K crowned, Paris, July 15th  1750 to July 22nd, 1752 [1, no. 420]; Discharge (below the body): a boar's head, discharge of the large works, Paris, October 1st, 1750 to October 1st, 1756 [1, no. 412]; Discharge (on the lid's mantle): a small hen's head, discharge of the small works of gold and silver, Paris, October 1st, 1750 to October 1st, 1756 [1, no. 413]; Master goldsmith (on the mantle and the molding at the neckline of the body, partly visible): E, heart, D, for Etienne Delanoy, master from 1724 to 1769.